Pounding The Rock Nov 20, 2020
Open Thread: Not everyone from the shortened season will return to the Spurs
Photo by Mike Ehrmann/ Who is on the chopping block? Here was the Spurs 2019-2020 roster: Dejounte Murray has the longest contract set to expire in 2024. Keldon Johnson and Luka Samanic are under contract until 2023 with the team holding options after this season. Lonnie Walker IV is also under a team option until 2022. Elder statesmen DeMar DeRozan, LaMarcus Aldridge, Rudy Gay, and Patty Mills have one more year on their contracts, as does Derrick White. Trey Lyles, Chimezie Metu, and Tyler Zeller have non-guaranteed contracts. Bryn Forbes, Marco...
Pounding The Rock Nov 17, 2020
Open Thread: Predicting the Spurs 2021 starting line-up
Photos by Darren Carroll/NBAE via Who makes your ideal San Antonio tip-off squad? The leaves are falling, the earth is cooling, and the pandemic version of NBA free agency is in full swing. Free agency affords opportunities. But it can also shut doors. I’m not going to lie, before the trade window opened up I was comfortable with the idea of trading DeMar DeRozan for Kyle Kuzma and Danny Green and LaMarcus Aldridge for the #2 pick and Andrew Wiggins. If both of those trades had happened, I imagined a starting line-up of Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Kuzma, and...
Pounding The Rock Nov 12, 2020
Open Thread: Lonnie Walker IV signs with Klutch Sports
Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Klutch official Twitter feed made the announcement. San Antonio Spurs Lonnie Walker IV signed with Klutch Sports yesterday. We are excited to welcome @lonniewalker_4! #Klutch pic.twitter.com/bnmoOXVuf4— Klutch Sports Group (@KlutchSports) November 11, 2020 Klutch already represents Dejounte Murray and Trey Lyles frum the Spurs as well as a former Cleveland Cavaliers player . . . LeBron something or other. In addition to LeBron James, Rich Paul also represents many of the league’s big names such as James’ Laker teammate Anthony Davis,...
Pounding The Rock Nov 9, 2020
Open Thread: Highlighting the best plays of the 2019-2020 San Antonio Spurs season
Photo by Ronald Cortes/ The good, the launchpad, and the downright nasty. It was a rough season. For the first time this century the San Antonio Spurs finished with a losing record. While there doesn’t seem to be the normal annual jubilee and appreciation, there is a lot to be thankful for, and a lot to be impressed by. This season we witnessed the return of Dejounte Murray, the emergence of Lonnie Walker IV, the display of the Poeltl Jam, acrobatic lay-ups, posterizing dunks, three-point heroics, and all the buzzer-beating finales necessary to get us inspired about what is to...
